RPG rulebooks sometimes open with an "example of play" where players with whitebread names like Arthur and Samantha go through a scripted scene and probably some combat to give you an idea what roleplaying is like. Tabletop roleplaying games are a weird hobby, and back in the day if you didn't have an existing group to join and were just going off the rulebooks like me, the only way to learn what they were like was by reading the adventures of Artie and Sam.
Now, you've got it easy. There are like 400 episodes of Critical Role online, not to mention Dimension 20, the Adventure Zone, Acquisitions Incorporated, and Dungeon Masters with Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde out of BG3. I would have killed for this many examples of how to play RPGs when I was a kid in a country town with no game shops around. All I had was ads in comics promising "The fantasy adventure of a lifetime!" Now I've got more hours of Matt Mercer saying "How do you want to do this?" than I'll ever have time to watch.
